Rein-holder.



PATENTED DEU. 20, 1904.

T. ,BOND, s3. REIN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILLED MAY 23, 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS BOND, ea, or DALLAS, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK J. PAGEL, or DALLAs, TEX S.

REIN-HOLDIEFR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 778,167, dated December 20, 1904.

Application filed May 23, 1904.. Serial No. 209,419. i

the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have.

invented new and useful Improvements in Rein-Holders, of which the following is. a specification.

' The invention relates to improvements in rein-holders.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of rein-holders and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient one of great strengthand durability adapted tobe readily applied to the dashboard of a vehicle for holding the reins when'the driver leaves the vehicle. T

A further object of the invention is to pro vide a device of this character which will be in convenient position for enabling the reins to be quickly engaged with it and removed from it withoutcrossing them and which will hold the reins at opposite sides of the center of the dashboard, so that when they are grasped for removing them from the device they will be in position for driving.

'With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts here inafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings,and pointed out in the claim hereto,appended, it being .understood that variouschanges in'the form, proportion,

size, and minor details of construction within the scope of the claim may be resortedto without departing fromthe spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a rein-holder constructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to a dashboard. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device. Fig-.3 isa transverse sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective Viewv of the resilient upper clamping plate or piece. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the lower plate.

Like numerals of reference designatecorresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

'1 designates a dash rod or rail arranged above slipping through the device.

a dashboard 2 in the usual position and 0011 nected with the said dashboard by clips 3 of the ordinary construction. The dash -rail supports the rein-holder and enables the same to be readily applied to a dashboard; but the reinholder, which comprises a lower fixed clamping-plate 4: and an upper resilient clampingplate 5, may be applied to the dashboard in any other desired manner. The lower clampingplate 4, which in practice is preferably welded to the dash rod or rail 1 ,is provided with a lower concaved face 6 to conform to the configuraseat 7 has longitudinal. corrugations 8 at opposite sides of the'same. These corrugations form pro3ectingr1bs, wh1ch are adapted to engage the lines to prevent the same from The seat or recess 7 receives a lug or enlargement 9 of the upper resllient clamplng plate or spring 5, which is secured to the' .lowerclamping-plate by means of a screw 10 or other suitable fastening device. By this construction the upper clamping-plate 5 is interlocked with the lower clamping-plate i and is thereby spaced therefrom and at the same time prevented from turning. The central depending lug-or enlargement 9 is slightly tapered, as shown, and it supports the upper clamping plate or spring above the lower clamping-plate, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.

ing-plate is provided with a central threaded opening for the reception of the screw, and this opening 12 is preferably extended into the rod or rail 1, as indicated in Fig. 2. The ends 13 of the upper clamping-plate are curved upward and outward, as shown, and theend edges 14 of the lower clamping-plate are beveled to provide a flaring mouth or entrance at The lower clamp each end of the rein-holder to permit the reins .to be readily inserted between the clampingopposite sides of the center of the dashboard in convenient position to be readily grasped by the driver for removing them from the device. VVhen the driver grasps the reins for removing them from the rein-holder, they are in proper position for driving and the reins are not crossed in introducing them into and removing them from the device.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a rein-holder, the combination with a dash-rail, of a lower clamping-plate grooved at its lower face to receive and fit the rail and provided at its upper face between its ends with a recess and having longitudinal corrugations located at opposite sides of the recess for engaging the reins, the ends of the plate being beveled, an upper resilient clampingplate provided with a depending lug fitting in the recess of the lower elanipingplate and spacing the plates from each other and also interlocking them, the ends of the upper plate being extended beyond the lower plate and upwardly curved, and a fastening device piercing the upper and lower clamping-plates and engaging the dash-rail and securing the parts together.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

TOM. BON 1), Sn.

\Vitnesses:

F. WV. BANZL, P. \V. ODORN. 

